Originally from Springfield, Ohio, Elmer E. Thompson graduated from the YMCA Training School in 1904. From 1904 to 1905, he worked as the Secretary of the Colored Men's Department of the YMCA facility in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, Robert P. Hamlin began working in YMCA facilities around 1890. He served as a librarian at the Province YMCA (Rhode Island) from 1893 to 1895, and then as Assistant Secretary from 1896 to 1905. After graduating from Springfield College in 1904, Hamlin served as the Secretary of the Colored Men's Departments in the Brooklyn, New York YMCA from 1906 to 1910. He then served as Secretary of the International Commission in Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1912, then in Louisville, Kentucky from 1913 to 1914. In 1915 he returned to Washington, D.C. to again serve as Secretary of the International Commission until 1919. From 1920 to 1927, he served as the State Secretary of the National Council for New York. Although still affiliated with the "Y" in New York, he took the year of 1928 off before transferring to the Newark, New Jersey facility to serve as the Secretary of the State Commission. He retired on July 25, 1934 and died on April 29, 1944. David Wilder graduated from Springfield College in 1903. He served as Secretary of the Colored Men's Department at the New Haven, Connecticut YMCA from 1903 to 1904. Wilder died on May 7, 1910.

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